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New NASA Admin Griffin Cleans House
Doug Dante writes "Michael D. Griffin, the new NASA Administrator, has given 20 senior NASA officials their walking papers, in a first purge that can see as many as 50 loose their positions, reports the Washington Post. Included are Associate Administrator for Space Operations William F. Readdy, and his deputy Air Force Maj. Gen. Michael C. Kostelnik (retired)."
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That the Daddypants account is ignored. I emailed saying that Loose isn't the same as lose, and that they should probably change that.
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
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I am not writing to agree or disagree with Sen. James Sensenbrenner. What I have to say, however, regards Sensenbrenner's decision to distract attention from more important issues. Let's review the errors in his statements in order. First, his concept of team play is sideline sulking.
He is willing to promote truth and justice when it's convenient. But when it threatens his creature comforts, he throws principle to the wind. He argues that he is omnipotent. To maintain this thesis, Sensenbrenner naturally has had to shovel away a mountain of evidence, which he does by the desperate expedient of claiming that this is the best of all possible worlds and that he is the best of all possible people. I am cognizant that he makes so many laughably unprofessional statements, it boggles the mind to think about them, but inequality does not beget equality -- and Sensenbrenner knows it.
I recently overheard a couple of foul, viperine amnesiacs say that neopaganism is the only alternative to barbarism. Here, again, we encounter the blurred thinking that is characteristic of this Sensenbrenner-induced era of slogans and propaganda. Like I said, by balancing the theoretical untruth and nonsense of his nostrums with the reality of this phenomenon, we can see that his cock-and-bull stories turn the stomachs of those who know even a little about the real world. I always catch hell whenever I say something like that, so let me assure you that he presents himself as a disinterested classicist lamenting the infusion of politically motivated methods of pedagogy and analysis into higher education. Sensenbrenner is eloquent in his denunciation of modern scholarship, claiming it favors manipulative cadgers. And here we have the ultimate irony, because while we do nothing, those who cultivate an unhealthy sense of victimhood are gloating and smirking. And they will keep on gloating and smirking until we lend support to the thesis that I am inwardly repelled by the pettifogging phraseology of Sensenbrenner's whinges and the counter-productive, haughty style in which they are expressed. We can divide Sensenbrenner's precepts into three categories: intransigent, splenetic, and demented. As our society continues to unravel, more and more people will be grasping for straws, grasping for something to hold onto, grasping for something that promises to give them the sense of security and certainty that they so desperately need. These are the classes of people Sensenbrenner preys upon.
I cannot believe how many actual, physical, breathing, thinking people have fallen for his subterfuge. I'm thoroughly stunned. Because of Sensenbrenner's tracts, our schools simply do not teach the basics anymore. Instead, they preach the theology of insolent isolationism. On a more personal note, Sensenbrenner is an opportunist. That is, he is an ideological chameleon, without any real morality, without a soul. In keeping with all of their inner bookish brutality, his lackeys shackle us with the chains of cynicism.
Regardless of what he seems to believe, it's time to step things up a notch and hold out the prospect of societal peace, prosperity, and a return to sane values and certainties. Vandalism can be deadly, but Sensenbrenner's diatribes are much worse. It is pointless to fret about the damage already caused by Sensenbrenner's incoherent manuscripts. The past cannot be changed. We must cope with the present if we hope to affect our future and wage war on interventionism. A recent series of hearings, lawsuits, and media reports demonstrates that an armed revolt against Sensenbrenner is morally justified. However, I assert that it is not yet strategically justified.
His claim that the Earth is flat is not only an attack on the concept of objectivity, but an assault on the human mind. Yes, you heard me right; Sensenbrenner's forces tend to fall into the mistaken belief that a richly evocative description of a problem automatically implies the correct solution to that problem, mainly because they live inside a Sensenbrenner-ge
The military has absolutely no interest in militarizing NASA. They have no control over NASA. They would much rather keep the dollars and programs in the Defense Department. They were burned by the Shuttle program, and wrote off NASA after the Challenger disaster.
Mea navis aericumbens anguillis abundat
What is it about stories on NASA that brings out the tin-foil hat brigade? Are they having a special on half-baked conspiracy theories?
Mea navis aericumbens anguillis abundat